SAN FRANCISCO: Internet<\/a> titans Google<\/a> and Amazon<\/a> came under an investor cloud after posting disappointing sales<\/a> updates, with the search leader also on the defensive for reportedly hushing up sexual misconduct.

Two of the world’s most valuable companies suffered slides in their share prices after releasing their quarterly earnings, declines that fuelled pessimism in Asian and European stock markets on Friday.

While both on Thursday reported bumper profits in the past quarter, revenues came up short of expectations at Google and Amazon spooked the markets with a so-so forecast for the all-important holiday season coming up.

“Given the current market backdrop, your earnings report has to be perfect or your stock will get punished,” said Vic Anthony, an analyst at Aegis Capital Corp.

Contributing to Google’s bad day was a New York Times report that one senior employee, Android creator Andy Rubin<\/a>, received an exit package worth $90 million as he faced allegations of misconduct, and that Google had covered up other claims of sexual harassment.

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai<\/a> sent an email to employees stating that 48 people had been terminated for sexual harassment in the past two years, including 13 who were senior managers and above, but that none received any exit package.

Google’s parent company Alphabet said its third-quarter net profit rose 36 percent to $9.2 billion, fueled by gains in digital advertising delivered online and on smartphones.

Alphabet has been working to become more diversified, with its own Pixel brand of smartphones and tablets, its Google Home smart speakers which are gaining ground on market leader Amazon, and services like cloud computing, another area where Amazon is strong. “Our hardware efforts are picking up real momentum,” Pichai told analysts on a conference call.

But Alphabet’s revenues fell short of forecasts, rising 21 percent to $33.7 billion in the three months ending in September, compared with the same period a year earlier.

For its part Amazon stock was down 8.66 percent ahead of Friday’s opening, despite seeing its quarterly net profit grow ten-fold from a year earlier to $2.9 billion.

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谷歌、亚马逊市场遭受挫折的销售前景

据说搜索领导人还处于守势掩盖性不端行为。

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发布于2018年10月27日08:34点坚持

旧金山:互联网泰坦谷歌和亚马逊受到一个投资者云后,令人失望销售更新,搜索巨头也处于守势的报道掩盖性不端行为。

两个世界上最有价值的公司在股价遭受了幻灯片后释放他们的季度收益,减少了悲观主义在亚洲和欧洲股市周五。

虽然周四报道丰厚利润在过去的季度收入出现低于预期在谷歌和亚马逊惊吓一般的市场预期至关重要的即将到来的假日季节。

“考虑到目前的市场背景下,你的收益报告必须是完美的或者你的股票会受到惩罚,”维克安东尼说,分析师宙斯盾资本集团。

导致谷歌的糟糕的一天是一个纽约时报的报导,一位资深员工,Android的创造者安迪·鲁宾收到退出包裹,价值9000万美元,因为他面临不当行为的指控,而谷歌已经掩盖了其他的性骚扰。

谷歌首席执行官Sundar Pichai给员工发了一封电子邮件,说明48人终止了性骚扰在过去的两年里,包括高级经理及以上13人,但没有收到任何退出计划。

谷歌的母公司字母表示,其第三季度净利润增长36%,至92亿美元,受收益数字广告网络和智能手机上。

字母表一直在努力变得更加多元化,有自己的像素品牌的智能手机和平板电脑,谷歌家智能音箱市场领导者亚马逊正在取得进展,和云计算等服务,亚马逊的另一个领域是强大的。“我们的硬件努力获得真正的动力支持,“Pichai在电话会议上告诉分析师。

但字母表的收入低于预期,上升21%至337亿美元在截至9月份的3个月,与去年同期相比。

的亚马逊股票周五开幕前下降了8.66%,尽管其季度净利润较上年同期增长十倍,至29亿美元。